Improvement in washing-machines



E.- NORTON.

Washing-Machines.

N0.134,816. Patentedlan.l4,1873.

AM PHO'IU-LIIHOGRAPHIC co. 1v. )(fam GRNES PROCESQ) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN NORTON, on BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,16, dated January 14, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN NORTON, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have, invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification: 7

The Nature of the Invention.

The nature of my invention consists in combining with a screw-spindle shaft a reversible head or disk, said head having upon one side a series of slats or ridges intervened with sponge-like masses, the other side being provided with ridges alone. 1 This disk is to operate against a fixed reversible disk made in the same manner, the whole being connected so as to operate together in a suitable tank or tub.

Description of the Drawing.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the whole machine. Figs. 2 and 3 represent the opposite sides of the fixed disk.,, 4 is a cross-vertical section of the machine; Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the same.

General Description. Let A B represents the tank or tub, and O a screw-shaft operating through the nut D in one end of the tank. T0 the end of the shaft 0 I attach a disk, K, Figs. 1, 4, 5, which is provided on one side with a series of 'slats or ridges, k k, intervened with a sponge-like material, L. Fig. 4. The other side of this disk has ridges only. The disk E, Figs. lfand 5, is made in the same manner, both disks, K and E, being reversible so that the sponge-faces or ridge-faces may be worked together, or one' ridge-face may work against the sponge-face of the other. Theshaft 0 being a screw it will be seen that the disk K may be set at any distance from the disk E. H is a handle for working the shaft (1, and thus giving motion to the disk K.

The operation of my washing-machine is as follows: The clothes to be washed are put between the disks K and E. Then the shaft 0 is screwed up until the required pressure is brought to bear upon the clothes, after which the disk K is made to oscillate by swinging the handle H back and forth. This action 

